The Lunar New Year has officially started, and pigs are like soooo last year. To usher in the Year of the Mouse and Rat, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles is hosting the 109th Annual Golden Dragon Parade and festival on February 9th and 10th. Performers from Beijing will lead the parade, followed by assorted city officials (Villaraigosa et al.), Mickey Mouse as grand Marshall, flower drum dances, a plethora of beauty queens,......

Los Angeles based artist, Tom Neely took some time out of his schedule to talk with LAist, about his new graphic novel The Blot, his current exhibit Self Indulgent Werewolf, and art & life in L.A. LAist: Why/how did you choose L.A. after graduating from art school? Neely: I went to grad school at the San Francisco Art Institute to get my MFA in painting. While I was in grad school I got so......

You’ve seen it all day. We’ve seen it all day. We refreshed and refreshed as we waited for a new banner ad to appear in Yahoo’s top right ad space. No luck. So now, as we count down to an appropriate moment for Happy Hour drinking to begin, we must ask the obvious: What the hell is David Beckham doing on a white horse? Riding in to save the future seasons of LA’s own......

We're big proponents of the idea that art is in the eye of the beholder. Questioning the definition of art is nothing new - Marcel Duchamp and his gang with their altered Mona Lisas, Jasper Johns with his flags and Ballantine Ale cans, and Richard Lair with his Thai Elephant Orchestra are but a handful of artists who have forwarded the idea that art is where you find it. In the city, there's a......

Sad, sad Britney. Why does she keep doing this to herself? And where are her PR people? Isn't this the perfect case of the cart pulling the horse? Anyway, watch the pain and suffering all on your own. Then take a deep breath and get ready for the onslaught of a Justin Timberlake comeback. Will the creator of the Mickey Mouse Club please step forward for their public flogging.......

Our LAist Wafflequest (tm) has continued into 2006, threatening to dominate future culinary outings. If there's an untried waffle in sight, we'll order it. Today's subject comes courtesy of Disneyland's "Carnation Cafe". Who can resist a Mickey Mouse waffle, sprinkled with sugar, and soon to be covered in butter and syrup? We couldn't. It was very tasty, but not really a waffle. It more resembled some sort of a breakfast cookie, and that waffle......

We're glad the weekend has done that wondrous, clock-work thing again by showing up just when we need it to. Years ago, when weekends meant early shifts at undesirable jobs, or, maybe worse, late night shifts at even less desirable jobs, we didn't feel the love for the weekend. But we're one of the Monday-Friday work week folk, and weekends are about rest, fun, friends, and, more often than not, food. When we were......